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Mark A. Finlayson |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS |
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Computational models of human intelligence and analogical reasoning, application of artificial intelligence to the social sciences, especially the study of culture. |
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EDUCATION |
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2002-Present |
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Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
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Doctoral
candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dissertation
Advisor: Patrick H. Winston , Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science |
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1999-2001 |
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Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
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M.S.
in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dissertation
Advisor: Henry I. Smith, Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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1995-1998 |
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University
of Michigan |
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B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, Magna cum Laude
Class Honors, 1998
Honor Roll in Fall 1996, Winter 1997, Winter 1998, and Fall 1998
Participant in LLNL Undergraduate Summer Institute in Applied Science, Summer 1998
NSF Research Internship at the University of Michigan Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, Summer 1997 |
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PUBLICATIONS, REFEREED |
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2009 |
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Finlayson, M.A.
Deriving Narrative Morphologies via
Analogical Story Merging, in
New Frontiers in Analogy Research
(Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Analogy), edited by
Boicho Kokinov, Keith Holyoak, and Dedre Gentner, New Bulgarian University Press,
Sofia,
pp. 127-136. | pdf (154 kb)
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2008 |
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Finlayson, M.A. Collecting Semantics in the Wild: The Story Workbench, in Naturally Inspired Artificial Intelligence (Technical Report FS-08-06, Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium), edited by Jacob Beal, Paul Bello, Nick Cassimatis, Michael Coen, and Patrick Winston, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, pp. 46-53. | pdf (199 kb) |
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2005 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Intermediate Features and Informational-level Constraint on Analogical Retrieval, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 666-671. | pdf (329 kb) | poster pdf (264 kb) |
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2000 |
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Hastings, J.T., Zhang, F., Finlayson, M.A., Goodberlet, J.G., & Smith, H.I. Two-dimensional spatial-phase-locked electron-beam lithography via sparse sampling. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 18 (6): 3268-3271. | pdf (294 kb) |
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PUBLICATIONS, NON-REFEREED |
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2006 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H.
Analogical Retrieval via Intermediate Features: The Goldilocks Hypothesis. MIT CSAIL Technical Report 2006-071 | pdf (840 kb) | web |
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2001 |
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Finlayson, M.A. Development of a Scintillating Reference Grid for Spatial-Phase-Locked Electron-Beam Lithography, Master's Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. | pdf (497 kb) |
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POSTERS
& ABSTRACTS |
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2007 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. The Rapid Story Annotation Workbench, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2007 | pdf (232 kb) | web |
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2007 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Reasoning by Imagining: The Neo-Bridge System, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2007 | pdf (221 kb) | web |
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2006 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Proposal for a Computational Model of Story Understanding, presented at the MURI workshop on Computational Models for Belief Revision, Group Decision, and Cultural Shifts, 27-28 January 2006. | pdf (320 kb) |
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2005 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Intermediate Features Improve Incremental Analogical Mapping, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 2477. | pdf (123 kb) | poster pdf (160 kb) |
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2005 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Computational Principles of Human Analogical Reasoning, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2005 | pdf (73 kb) | web |
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2004 |
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Finlayson, M.A.
& Winston, P.H. A Model of Analogical Retrieval
using Intermediate Features, in Proceedings of the 26th Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Kenneth Forbus, Dedre Genter, and Terry Reiger, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 1557. | pdf (72 kb) | poster pdf (362 kb) |
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2004 |
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Winston,
P.H. & Finlayson, M.A. Computational Politics, in the MIT
CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2004, pp. 783-784. | pdf (101 kb) |
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS |
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2009 |
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"Story Basis Sets and Intermediate Features" at the DARPA Workshop on EN-Mem Systems, Washington DC, 7 February 2007. |
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2008 |
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"Collecting Semantics in the Wild: The Story Workbench" at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Naturally Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, 8 November 2008. |
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2007 |
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"The Difficulties and Uses of Text Annotation, Medical and Otherwise" (Invited Talk), at the Brigham & Women's Hospital Decision Systems Seminar, Boston, MA, 7 February 2007. |
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2006 |
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"Analogy: What's Missing" (Invited Talk), at the MIT DARPA BICA Retreat on the Computational Human Intelligence Project, Dedham, MA, 19 January 2006. |
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2004 |
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"Analogical Retrieval via Intermediate Features," at the MIT CSAIL Student Seminar, Cambridge, MA, 10 May 2004. |
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RESEARCH
PROPOSALS & WHITE PAPERS |
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2008 |
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Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Story Basis Sets and Intermediate Features: Foundations for Schema Building and Culturally-Grounded Interpretation, White Paper in response to RFI DARPA-SN-09-08 (accepted) |
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2006 |
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Finlayson, M.A. A Computational Model of Cultural Memory Effects, Revised Doctoral Thesis Proposal to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. |
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2004 |
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Finlayson, M.A. Analogical Reasoning using Representational Constraint and Re-representational Feedback, Doctoral Thesis Proposal to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. |
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2004 |
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Winston,
P.H. & Finlayson, M.A. Explaining and Predicting
Culturally Conditioned Viewpoints with Analogical Reasoning Systems, Proposal
in response to NSF Solicitation HSD04, No. 04-537. |
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2003 |
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Winston,
P.H. & Finlayson, M.A. Representationally Complete
Analogical Reasoning Systems and Steps Toward Their Application in
Political Science, Proposal in response to NSF Solicitation AICS03, No.
03-600. Funded, 4 years, $446,371, IIS-0413206 |
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ADVISEES |
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2008-2009 |
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Sebastien Dabdoub, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Projects: Collecting Phrase-Structure Parses from Novice Users with the Story Workbench and Distributing Computation over the CSAIL Condor Cluster |
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2009 |
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Nidhi Kulkarni , Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: jMWE: A Java Library for Collocation Detection |
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Spring 2009 |
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Kevin Hwang, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Cultural Biases in Human Moral Recall |
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Fall 2008 |
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Brett van Zuiden, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: jWSD: A Java Library for Word-Sense Disambiguation |
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2008
Spring 2005 |
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Emilie Kim, Masters of Engineering, Thesis: Investigation of Cultural Biases in Human Moral Recall: A Computationally Grounded Study | pdf (949 kb), Undergraduate Research Assistant, Undergraduate Thesis (UAP): Grounded Models for Understanding Conflicts from Multiple Points of View | pdf (545 kb) |
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Summer 2008 |
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Drew Shapiro, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Visualizing Discourse in the Story Workbench |
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Summer 2008 |
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Tejasvi Vishwanadha, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Detecting Collocations in the Story Workbench |
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2007-2008 |
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Owen Lin, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Algorithms for Event Extraction |
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2006-2007 |
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Diana Moore, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Undergraduate Thesis (UAP): Testing the Story Workbench: A Faster and more Accurate Tool for Word Sense Disambiguation | pdf (945 kb), UROP Project: Detecting Violations of Spelke Principles in Imagined Scenes |
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2006-2007 |
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Mark Seifter, Masters of Engineering, Thesis: Building Representations from Natural Language | pdf (537 kb), Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Application of Modern Natural Language Parsing Techniques to the Bridge Project
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2006-2007 |
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Harold Cooper, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Motion Representation in the Bridge Project |
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Spring 2004 |
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Yaron Binur, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: A GUI for Browsing Bridge Memory |
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Summer 2002 |
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Maithilee Kunda, Research Science Institute High-School Research Assistant, Research Project Title: Quenching of Organic Scintillators in Polymer Thin Films for Spatial-Phase-Locked Electron-Beam Lithography |
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
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Spring 2006 |
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Graduate Instructor, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Rahul Sarpeskar. |
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Fall 2004 |
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Head Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns. |
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Spring 2004 |
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Head Teaching Assistant, 6.050 Information and Entropy, with Professors Paul Penfield and John Wyatt. |
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Fall 2003 |
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Head Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns. |
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Spring 2003 |
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Head Teaching Assistant, 6.050 Information and Entropy, with Professors Paul Penfield and Seth Lloyd. |
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Fall 2002 |
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Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns. |
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REVIEWING |
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2009 |
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IEEE Intelligent Systems |
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2006-2009 |
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Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) |
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2008 |
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AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) |
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2007 |
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European Cognitive Science Conference (EuroCogSci) |
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2006 |
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International Conference of the Cognitive Science (ICCS) |
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2007 |
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International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice (IJCITP) |
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OTHER EMPLOYMENT |
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2008-2009 |
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Consultant, MyRoar, Inc., Boston, MA. |
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2007-2008 |
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Consultant, EventMonitor, Inc., Boston, MA. |
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2001-2002 |
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Senior Engineer, Nantero Inc., Woburn, MA. |
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Summer 1999 |
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Graduate Research Assistant, Submicrometer Technology Group. MIT Lincoln Laboratory, under Theodore Bloomstein, Ph.D. and Mordechai Rothschild, Ph.D. |
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Summer 1998 |
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Undergraduate Research Assistant, Nanostructures Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA. under Professor Henry I. Smith. |
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Summer 1997 |
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Undergraduate Research Assistant, High-field Science Group, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, under Associate Professor Donald Umstadter. |
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Summer 1996 |
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Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Applied Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, under Professor Roy Clarke. |
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